By way of Graham:

A newspaper clipping.

Indeed, Mr. Steiner’s book and career are in many ways a celebration of the virtues of being utterly out of fashion. “In the 60’s, I was teaching amid all the upheaval, but I never had a day of trouble,” he said. “The young despise those who are trying to fake it, but they can accept the fact that you can be nuts or wrong politically. I walked into my classes and said: ‘I’m a reactionary mastodon out of the lost past. You don’t need to come to this lecture. But if you do I will explain something to you. I know an embarrassing lot. Terrible. You know almost nothing. I’ve taken an oath before God to change this equation in your favor. Now shut up.’ I didn’t have a moment’s trouble.”

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